Chloe Roubert Google Street View cars, mounted with nine cameras, roam the earth recording whatever happens to appear before them, from tumbleweeds floating across deserted highways to Justin Bieber’s grandparents in the front yard of the pop star’s Ontario home (earning Street View the apt nickname “Googlerazzi”). The Google cameras[Read More…]
Arts & Entertainment
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Look at What the Light Did Now
blogs.sltrib.com Listening to the sounds of indie darling Feist is always a treat, but Look at What the Light Did Now, a documentary portraying the artist’s journey as she recorded her Grammy-nominated album The Reminder, turned the audible into a visual treat as well. This year, Pop gave Montrealers the[Read More…]
Katie Moore
borealisrecords.com Katie Moore is a Montreal-based songstress who needs nothing more than a guitar and her hauntingly beautiful voice to entrance an audience. And at Le Cagibi on Friday night, that’s exactly what she did. As she performed some tunes from her 2007 solo album Only Thing Worse, including “It’s[Read More…]
TheTemperTrap
Milena Paprok The atmosphere in Le National this past Saturday was buzzing with anticipation as a crowd of teenagers and adults awaited the performance of the Australian-based indie rock quartet, the Temper Trap. After what seemed like an unreasonably long wait, the crowd became restless and began chanting for the[Read More…]
Holy Fuck
Holly Stewart There may have been a mini-monsoon Thursday night, but that didn’t stop droves of people from making the trek up Park Avenue to Espace Reunion for a 2 a.m. set from Toronto’s Holy Fuck. Taking the stage clad in a “Poo Teens” t-shirt (talk about catering to a[Read More…]
Hollerado
Adam Scotti Hollerado’s worked hard to get the recognition they’ve received in the Canadian music scene, but on Friday night the band showed that hard work can be fun. The four-piece group from Manotick, Ontario played two Pop Montreal shows, the first at Cabaret Just for Laughs at 9 p.m.[Read More…]
Between the Lines
In this episode of Between the Lines, the Tribune Editorial Board recaps the Architecture Cafe Rally and the ongoing drama that is AUS Frosh’s financial complications. Tune in for exciting news every week from this fantastic TVMcGill – Tribune collaboration.
Finding sanctuary in the written word
Jane Urquhart was born a writer, but she never envisioned that she would one day be considered among the ranks of the most widely read and respected Canadian authors. With the recent publication of her seventh novel, Sanctuary Line, Urquhart has been nominated for the prestigious Giller Prize: an award[Read More…]
Opera de Montreal explores the dark price of laughter
Opera de Montreal’s season-opening production of Rigoletto’s famous tunes, virile tenor solos, rousing choruses, lavish costumes, and talented cast are well worth the price of admission. Spectators will be rewarded with a dark, compelling fable of comedy and fate. Rigoletto is the hunchbacked, misanthropic jester in the court of[Read More…]
Drinking in the footsteps of Richler
Alice Walker Alice Walker Mordecai Richler never attended McGill University, but it’s likely the university’s administrators wish he had. Richler, the acclaimed Montreal novelist whose works depict the city in gritty detail, is the namesake of McGill’s new writer-in-residence program, which will bring two authors—one Anglophone, one Francophone—to McGill to[Read More…]
